News
Ozone Action Alert today
Heat advisory through 8 p.m. Sept. 4 The Mid-America Regional Council Air Quality Program has issued an orange Ozone Action Alert for Sept. 1. This means the air is expected to contain unhealthy levels of ground‑level ozone, a pollutant that forms on hot, sunny days and can cause health issues — especially for children, older adults…
Community Living
DIVAS ON A DIME: Celebrate Labor Day with late-summer mezze board
By Patti Diamond Labor Day weekend is summer’s grand finale, the last big bash before we begin pretending we are ready for sweaters, schedules and pumpkin-spiced everything.Let’s make a late-summer mezze board: a relaxed Mediterranean-style feast of smoky vegetables, creamy dips, warm pita and salty little nibbles. It looks lavish, but its principal players –…
Multimedia
Gallery | Week 1 Football
Kearney football against Belton and Smithville football against Harrisonville Friday, Aug. 28.
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Entertainment
Bluegrass in the Tallgrass coming Sept. 12
LIBERTY — The Bluegrass in the Tallgrass concert starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the picnic shelter at Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary, 407 N. La Frenz Road, Liberty.
Opinion
Time to set bitterness aside
We humans have the ability to file both negative and positive experiences in our memory banks. The negative sometimes produce bitterness, a condition someone tagged a “saboteur of the spirit.”